On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Aakash Jain wrote: > If you can tell me one thing that would be very helpful for me. > I want to know that "is there any function in pcre distribution that can > generate random strings from regular expression(pcre) which are satisfied by > regular expression ?"
No, there isn't. > If it is not there, then can we use pcre_compile function to generate > strings ? You can't use that function. It might be possible to use the compiled code (as described, briefly, in HACKING) as data for a new function that did this, but I am not sure if it is actually possible - I am worried about the recursion in particular. It is an interesting thought, however. I guess what you need is something that scans the compiled regex and, at each branch point, takes a random decision and generates something that matches. There would have to be some limit on how it dealt with unlimited repeats, of course. Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
